Question

read the passage from chapter 5 of animal farm. that evening squealer explained privately to the other animals that napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. on the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among napoleons papers. the windmill was, in fact, napoleons own creation. why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? here squealer looked very sly. that, he said, was comrade napoleons cunning. he had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. now that snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference. this, said squealer, was something called tactics. he repeated a number of times, \tactics, comrades, tactics!\ skipping which figure from russian history does napoleon most likely represent? lenin, who led the rebellion against the tsar in the name of communism marx, who outlined a new social philosophy in the communist manifesto stalin, who built a dictatorship under the guise of communism trotsky, who was ultimately banished from the communist party

Explanation:

In "Animal Farm", Napoleon uses cunning tactics (like eliminating Snowball and taking credit for the windmill plan) to establish control, mirroring Stalin's rise to power—building a dictatorship while claiming to uphold communism. Lenin led the initial rebellion, Marx was a philosopher, and Trotsky was banished, so these don't match Napoleon's actions.

Answer:

C. Stalin, who built a dictatorship under the guise of communism